Coin-collecting and change-making device



G. A. PERDUE.

com COLLECTlNG AND CHANGE MAKING DEVICE.

Patented Dec fi, 1921.,

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APPLICATION FILED OCT. 27, 1919.

ummy G. A. PERDUE.

COIN COLLECTING AND CHANGE MAKING DEVICE.

APPLICA'IION FILED 001.2%1919.

1,399,65U. Patented Dec 16, 1921.,

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COIN COLLECTING ANIi CHANGE IVIAKING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 21, I919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

Application filed October 27, 1919; Serial lilo. 333,621.

' To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, GILES A. P'nnnnn, a citizen of the United States,.residing at Wilmington, in the county of New Castle 5 and State of Delaware, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin- "Collecting and Change-Making Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference 'marked thereon,

which form a. part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful.

improvements in coin receiving and change making apparatus, and the ob ect of the mvention is to produce a simple and eiiiclent apparatus-of this nature so arranged that When a coin is deposited in the same, the

requisite change of any amount, to which. the apparatus is adjusted, may be delivered. l'he invention comprises various details of construction, combination and arrange ment of parts which will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and then specifically defined in the appended claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings which, with the numerals of reference marked thereon, form a part of this application, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the coin receiving and change making apparatus.

Fig. 1 is a viewin elevation of the apparatus.

Fig. 2 is a top planview, parts being in horizontal section. F Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3-3 of d is a top plan view of the plate 12.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view.

Fig. 6 is a sectional view on line 6-6 of 45 Fi 1'. a

Fig. 7 j is a detail perspective view of a part of the invention, and a Fig. 8 is a fragmentary sectional detail view of two of the magazines and the coin ejecting slides therefor.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by numerals:

1 designates the casing of the change making apparatus which may be of any suitable size, design or shape, made preferably of metal, having a hopper 2 at its lower end wlth an exit opening 3 through which the coins are delivered.

Mounted in the opposite end walls of the casing is a rock shaft 4: having a handle 5 fixed thereto, and 6, designates rods, two being shown 1n the drawings, which are fastened at their upper ends to collars 7 which are keyed, or otherwise fastened, to rock with the shaft 4. Said rods have right angled portions 8, having arms 9, shown clearly in Fig. 6 of the drawings, and which project horizontally, and each arm has its outer end fixed to a bar 10, shown in cross section in Fig. 6 and in edge view in Fig. 5 of the drawings. Said bar 10 has a plurality of fingers 11 projecting at right angles therefrom, and each provided for a purposewhich will be hereinafter described.

lUpon reference to the drawings will be seen a series of small casings, designated by numeral 12, which are secured to the rear wall of the main casing, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 5 of the drawings, and each casing rests upon a shelf or table15 having a marginal flange 16, said table resting upon the upper ends of a'plurality ofcoin re-- ceiving magazines 17, 1'8, 19, 20 and 21, provided for the reception of coins of different denominations.

Mounted within each of said casings 12, is a hollow shell 22, a detail of one of which is shown in Fig. 7 of the drawings, and which is provided with a cylindrical outlined horizontal opening 23 adapted to re-' ceive a finger 11. Each casing 12 has vertically disposed coin slots 24 and 2 1 registering with slots in said casing, the coin slots 24 registering with the containers 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, and the coin slots 24 registering with a like number of similar coin slots or casings which discharge directly into the hopper 2.

Projecting from the rear of said shell, is a pin 25, which telescopeswithin a hollow tubular projection 26 extending horizontally from the rear wall 14, as shown in Fig. 5 of drawin A coiled spring 27 fits over said hollow tubular projection and the pin 25., and bears farthest forward position within the casing.

12. Each of the seve al casings 12. c nta ns int a similar shell which is operated in the same manner as before described.

Fastened to corresponding sides of each shell 12 is a right angled member 28, shown clearly in Fig. 7 of the drawings, which has pivotal connection with the upper end of a tilting lever 29, which is slotted at 80 (Fig. 6) and has pivotal connection with a pin 31 which is mounted upon a bar 32 fastened to the frame of the casing. The lower end of each of said levers 29, there being one, as shown, in connection with each shell 22, is pivoted to a link 33, which link in turn is pivotally connected at 34 to one arm of an angle lever 35 which in turn is pivoted at 36 to the floor 37 underneath the magazines. Said lever 35 has an arm 38 which is adapted to contact with a lug 39 upon a plate 40, which latter has a circular outlined aperture therein, corresponding to the size of the bore of the magazine underwhich it is located, and mounted to have a sliding movement upon the plate 42 which has a series of eircular'outlined openings 43 therein of sizes to correspond with the diameters of different denominations of coins to be held in the several magazines.

The lug 39 of the plate 40 extends down through an elongated slot 45 formed in the plate .42, the latter being provided with a handle 46 at one end to facilitate its being withdrawn when it is desired to discharge all of the contents'of the magazine into the hopperbeneath.

In operation, assuming that it is desired to deposit a 50 piece and to receive 44 in change, the coin is dropped into the slot leading to the magazine 17, said coin being positioned within the casing 12 and against the end of the shell 22 therein, after which the operator by rocking the shaft 4 through the medium of the handle 5, will cause the several pins 11, which are fastened to the bar 10, to move rearward through the perforations in the several casings 12. The first pin at the right coming in contact with the coin in the first casing 12, will cause the shell therein to move rearward, and, through the pivotal connections 29 therewith, the angled lever 35 will be tilted, and its arm coming in contact with the lug 39 upon the plate underneath the second magazine at the right, will cause the plate having said lug to move to the leftand coming in contact with the next adjacent plate 40, will cause the series of plates to move simultaneously tothe left.

It will be understood that each plate 40 is normally in registration with. the magazine above and each adapted to receive a coin of a particular denomination, the upper surface of the coin being flush with the upper surface of the plate 40, and that when the series of plates 40 are moved to the left by crowding against each other, each plate will carry with it the coin of a certain denomiauthorized persons.

nation, and shut off the exit of other coins above, and when the circular outlined opening in each plate 40 comes in registration with an opening of similar diameter in the plate beneath, the several coins will drop into the hopper at the bottom. In the event of it being desired to cause more than one coin to be deposited at the same time from a particular magazine, in order to make the proper change, the particular plate underneath the magazine, where more than one coin is to be deposited, is of a thickness, corresponding to the total thickness of the several superposed coins to be ejected from the particular magazine under which it is stationed.

After pressure is relieved from the operating handle 5, the various springs 27 will return the parts to their normal positions and the apparatus will be ready for a repetition of the operation described. In the event that a coin of a lesser denomination be placed in a slot provided for a. coin of a larger denomination, it is conveyed by gravity downward to the pan underneath, to be taken out by the person who inserted the same, without any effect on the mechanism. This is accomplished by means of a portion of the slots 24, immediately beneath the shells 22, having internal shoulders to arrest the proper coin in position for the action of the plunger 11, the plunger contacting with the coin and pushing the same and the shell 22 rearward, until the coin comes in vertical alinement with one of the magazines, such as 18, whereupon the coin drops thereinto. Said shoulders, on the inside of the slots 24 are so arranged as to allow any coin of a smaller diameter to pass, but to arrest the proper coin.

The function of the rear chutes 24 is to provide means whereby the machine can be charged with change, or coins, direct into the mechanism, without running it through the mechanism and registering the same.

It will be understood,of course, that the tops of the chutes 24 will normally be covered by a lid, which can be opened only by The coins are dropped right through the chutes 24 into the magazines to charge the machine.

hat -I claim to be new is:

1. A coin-receiving and change-making apparatus comprising a row of magazines disposed side by side for the reception of coins of different denominations, a series of horizontally movable plates, one thereof being horizontally disposed beneath each of said magazines, each of said plates having an aperture to receive a coin, said apertures being adapted for coins of different denominations, said plates being disposed end to end and movable in a direction lengthwise of said row, selectively-actuated coin controlled elements horizontally slidable in a naeaeto plane above said magazines, and mechanism intermediate said elements and said plates for selectively moving the latter.

2 A coin-receiving and change-making apparatus comprising a row of magazines disposed side by "side for the reception of coins of different denominations, a series of horizontally movable plates, one thereof being horizontally disposed beneath each of sa1d magazines, each of said plates having an aperture to receive a coin, said apertures being adapted for coins of difl'erent denominations, said plates being disposed end to end and movable in a direction lengthwise of said row, selectively-actuated coln controlled elements horizontally slidable in a plane above said magazines, mechanism intermediate said elements and said plates for selectively moving the latter, and means for automatically returning the movable parts to their normal position after actuation thereof.

3. A coin-receiving and change-making apparatus comprising a row of magazines disposed side by side for the reception of coins of different denominations, a series of horizontally movable plates, one thereof being horizontally disposed beneath each of said magazines, each of said plates having an aperture to receive a coin, said apertures being adapted for coins of dideren't denominations, said plates being disposed end to end and movable in a direction lengthwise of said row, spring-pressed selectively-aetuated coin controlled elements horizontally slidably in a plane above said magazines,

w mechanism intermediate said elements and lit) till

said plates for selectively moving the latter, and means for automatically returning the movable parts to their normal position after actuation thereof.

4. A coin-receiving and change-making apparatus comprising a row of magazines disposed side by side for the reception of ,coins of different denominations, a series of horizontally movable plates, one thereof being horizontally disposed beneath each of said magazines, each of said plates having an aperture to receive a coin, said apertures being adapted for coins of difi'erent denominations, said plates being disposed end to end and movable in a direction lengthwise of said row, selectively-actuated coin controlled elements horizontally slidable in a plane above said-magazines, mechanism intermediate said elements and said plates for selectively moving the latter, and a stationary casing for each of said coin controlled elements and within which casings said coin controlled I elements are slidable 5.. A coin-receiving and change-making it apparatus comprising a row of'magazines disposed side by side for the reception of coins of diderent denominations, a series of horizontally movable plates, one thereof being horizontally disposed beneath each of said magazines, each ot'said plates having an aperture to receive a coin, sa1d apertures being adapted for coins of different denominations, said platesbeing disposed endto end and movable in a direction lengthwise of said row, selectively-actuated coin controlled elements horizontally slidable in a plane above said magazines, mechanism intermediate said elements and said plates for selectively moving the latter, and a stationary plate disposed beneath said series of lengthwise of said row, selectively-actuated coin controlled elements horizontally slid able in a plane above said magazines, mechanism intermediate said elements and said plates for selectively moving the latter, a stationary plate disposed beneath said se-,

gitudinally extending series of apertures therein adapted to register with said apertures in the movable -plates,said stationary plate being provided with slots connecting said apertures therein, and projections carries of movable plates, and having a lonried by said movable plates and moving in said slots.

7. A coin receiving and. change making apparatus, comprising a series of magazines for the reception of coins of different denominations, a separate movable plate mounted underneath each magazineand having an opening therein, a series of casings with coin slots therein, a spring pressed shell movable within each casing andhaving an opening therein, a rock shaft, a bar actuated thereby and having fingers projecting therefrom adapted to be inserted through openings in said casings to push a coin against one of said shells, pivotal levers connected one to each of said shells,

and angle levers actuated thereby and adapt-g ed to contact with lugs noon said plates to cause one of said plates to be moved from underneath the magazine and contact its with other similar plates, to cause one, or

more coins to be delivered from the magazine, and-means for returning the several parts of the apparatus to their normal positions. v 8. A coin receiving and change making apparatus, comprising a series of magazines illliid for the reception of coins of difierent denominations, a separate movable plate mounted underneath each magazine and having an opening therein, a series of casings with coin slots therein, a spring pressed shell movable. Within each casing and having an opening therein, a rock shaft, a bar actuated thereby and having fingers projecting therefrom adapted to be inserted through openings in said casin s to push a-coin against one of said she? levers connected one to each of said shells,

and angle levers actuated thereby and adapt-.

ls, pivotal ed to contact with lugs upon said plates to cause one of said plates to be moved from underneath the magazine and contact with other similar plates, to cause one or more coins to be delivered from the magazine, an apertured plate extending underneath the several magazines and upon which the individual plates are adapted to rest, and means for returning the several plates to their normal positions.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

' GILES A. PERDUE. 

